Grateful Dead

Oroborous, we stayed in the same lot. Come to think of it. You must have been the guy that sold me that guacamole sandwich! Those were the days.

Deadvikes, thanks!
40 seems like a big deal to me, but when you think of how many folks here (or used to be here) can add ten years to that....
Those 86 Alpine shows we’re our first time there. Don’t remember the shows so much, but man did we have fun.
Camped out next to the woods in that adjacent lot. Traveling with a blind dude and seeing eye dog....
Saw Alpine through Buffalo that tour. Think I recall liking Alpine, felt Riverbend was one of the best I had been at up to that point. Those riverboats coinciding with the songs at just the right time, still gives me goose bumps. The fireworks after in the lot too, voooohooo, kinda how I was feeling at the time 😎
Buffalo was great, don’t recall much of Akron? Don’t recall liking that one very much. Remeber Dylan came out in the first set to jam, but it didn’t seem to mesh well. Have only heard a few shows from 86 though, so need to check all that out someday.....so many shows, so little time!

Stoltzy: great Irish like GD blessing! 70 box, or 69 might be good guess. Either would be awesome!
Like Jim said, wouldn’t mind a Summer 85, especially that 6/30, or Hershey, or Toga!
Of course that brings up the whole tape/source issue? Thought the Riverbend 85 was decent release, so maybe there’s hope? Know many don’t like those years, but many others would really dig a summer 85 release/Box, something!
Remember a great homemade shirt in Hershey, said ‘I lost my shit in Hershey” which I kinda did LOL!
Right when they hit “ashes, ashes all fall down” I basically had to slump down in the mud right in front of the soundboard and lay down for a bit, so my friends and Healy all had a good laugh at that!
Perhaps culmative effect from several fungal days in a row, a whole sixer of elephant beer, and not much food? Nahhhh, must a been the weather! 😎

what a hassle.

May the GD always be ON, your shows always be hot, and your discs always be skipless.

I haven't received my replacement discs yet, but its beginning to look as though Rhino are no longer fit for purpose. Maybe time to go elsewhere. I think if I'd messed up this often in my job I'd have been sacked.

Just keep skipping, skipping, skipping, just keep skipping. Yes, my replacement discs also have skips in the same exact spot, you can see a raised dot, like a period made by a pencil, on the disc. Now, how can you not see this and yet, it was still sent out as a replacement. Rhino has no quality control, at least with this release. When will it end? The dangers of blind faith.

Nice compact set II tape. It fit on a 60 minute tape for me. Check out this jam: Playing>UJB>Drumz>China Doll>Playing>GDTRFB>Lovelight. Can't remember if the double encore of Sat. NIte>Baby Blue fit on the tape or not.

https://archive.org/details/gd86-06-28.sbd.miller.21272.sbeok.shnf

Although Alpine '85 night 2 I like a bit better. For the fidelity of the tape I had, but I think overall may have been a better show.

https://archive.org/details/gd1985-06-22.123486.sbd.miller.flac16

WOw Great .. Nice to share this.

Happy 40th Anniversary! I am sure it would have been great to see shows back in those days. My first, June 25,1986 at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. It was Dylan, the Dead and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The sound was awful in the Dome for concerts. Two days later we were on our way to Alpine. Within two weeks, Jerry slipped into a coma. Back in those days, we didn't know if we would ever see the band again. You know the rest of the story. What a run after that!
And I agree we need more releases. We are not getting enough new product, time to step it up.
I would love to see that Fall 80 box. Did you make it to any of those shows?

Ugh.

Sorry marye...

Sometimes a guy just has to say it, though

2/14/86

Yes 86

Many high energy moments

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